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Good ol' Nietzsche- I need help with some criticism

His particular interpretation of the 'will'. I need some criticisim, hopefully in relation to Beyond Good and Evil, and with referance relative to Schopenhauer own claims of the 'will'...:confused:

So far I have the fact that we cannot merely accept his own personal idealoligies

Yes, I'm quite confused.
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Yes, you do seem quite confused.

A good starting point would be to identify Schopenhauer's conception of the will as a simple unitary action, in direct contrast to Nietzsche who views it as unitary only in name, rather being a complex set of actions which are bundled together only nominally under the name "willing". Willing in Nietzsche's case is a matter of the will to power, namely being a matter of commanding and obeying, accompanied by a set of actions that come about as a result of the struggle between commanding and obeying.

Now I'm not going to write out an essay answer for you, but my counter-critique focused on the following ideas. Short of not having a grasp as to what these ideas actually are, you shouldn't be desperately short on criticisms:

Nietzsche's denial of causality;

The distinction between potentiality and actuality and their identification internally and/or externally;

Double standards concerning being causa sui;

The possible existence of a will to dominate/command.

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